indicator-chars

Author:	Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>

App indicator to provide a menu with (potentially funny UTF-8) characters for simple copying them to clipboard (similar to original characters applet).

Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of characters to be selectable.

Fork by Cyrille37

Author:	Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>

• Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D
  • replace the custom icon with a theme icon name
  • add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")
• Other minors changes
  • use env to find the Python engine
  • add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"

Fork by Adrian I Lam

Author:	Adrian I Lam <adrianiainlam@gmail.com>

• Changes to Cyrille37's fork:
  • port to Python 3 from Python 2
  • use the svg custom icon

Install

• Checkout source code
• Create ~/.indicator-chars
  • Each row corresponds to a set of chars
  • Optional submenu title prefix: "[title]" (trailing spaces stripped)
  • Optional descriptions after chars: "(description)" (leading & trailing spaces stripped)
  • Spaces (apart from above) also count as chars
  • Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding
• Put indicator-chars.py into auto start

Open issues

• If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon?
• Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items?
  • No standard Gtk way does not work.